#cultural

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#cultural #governing #health #living #losing

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#attitude #aware #burial #cultural #dead

The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#analytical #cultural #curriculum #did #heritage

We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#also #became #board #broad #called

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#amazing #art #cultural #find #melting

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#classic #cultural #going #hoping #i

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#conservative #culturally #i #i think #issues

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#anything #characterizes #communication #cultural #failures

We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics. ↗

— Susan Douglas

#media #social-change #age

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#been #clearly #cultural #define #dismissed